El Niño, characterized by unusually warm sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, disrupts weather patterns worldwide. In Latin America, it typically brings heavier ...

A week or two back I shared a plane ride down from Scotland with a group of Americans who had obviously been golfing. Since one was sporting a MAGA baseball cap, it seemed a fair guess that they had ...

July 21 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities are considering tightening export controls on AI and semiconductor technologies, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The step reflects Beijing's push to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. White collar trial and appellate lawyer, FCPA and legal leader. The FDPR, codified in the U.S. Export Administration Regulations, ...

China’s Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s programming tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to multiple reports. Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as ...

China has added 10 United States-based companies to its export control list and barred government procurement from nearly 50 US companies two weeks after the Pentagon blacklisted some of China’s ...

Iran’s crude oil exports fell to their lowest level in at least six years in May, as a United States naval blockade squeezes Tehran’s most important source of income amid a fragile ceasefire between ...

"Digital authoritarianism" refers to governments using technology for surveillance and censorship to repress dissent. China remains the master practitioner. There, sweeping surveillance and censorship ...

“Digital authoritarianism” refers to governments using technology for surveillance and censorship to repress dissent. But this problem is no longer confined to Moscow or Beijing. Democracies, too, are ...

It has become impossible to cross the main avenues of Dakar, Lagos or Abidjan without being filmed. Behind the lenses of the cameras being installed across many West African cities lies, in most cases ...

Iron Software builds trusted .NET libraries for document automation. Every C# application eventually needs to export data to Excel. The question is never whether you will need it, only what format ...